Item 38 - Liquidation

1 cartoon

The cartoon depicts a body of water captioned 'liquidation', in which two ducks, labelled 'Mersey' and 'RR' [Rolls Royce] are floating. There is an industrial area in the background. In the foreground, there is a mechanical duck on wheels, which appears to be unstable. Workers below it look on in horror and appear to be running away from it. Edward Heath and John Davies are depicted running looking on, pleased, as they send a bottle bomb, captioned 'no', into the belly of the mechanical duck.

[News: 15 June: 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders faced liquidation. The announcement was made in the Commons by Mr Davies, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. The Government decided not to inject any more funds into the group.] (Source: British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent).